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HENRY W. BOOTH, OF WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA.. I

i ClNDER-SIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,671, dated January 8, 1884.

Application lled October 1, 1883. (No model.) Patented in Canada October 15, 1883, No. 17,872.

To a/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WOOD BOOTH, of the town of Windsor, in the county of Essex, in the Province of Ont-ario, Canada, manufacturer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cinder-Sifters, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of the invention is to construct a simple, cheap, and effective dustless cindersifter, of that class designed to be used in connection with a barrel or similar ash-receptac1e, and which shall combine strength, durability, and cheapness'of manufacture; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combinations of parts, Vas hereinafter more fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 isa perspective view of my improved cinder-sifter placed upon an ash-barrel,`

with the cover F removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section.

In the drawings, A is the body of an ordinary sieve having a netted or perforated bottom, B.

To the top of the rim A of the body A is rigidly fastened the cover C. This cover is designed to iit the top of a barrel, D, and is provided with a flange, a, which ts'over the top edge of the barrel and forms a joint bef tween it and the sieve. This cover is provided with a hole, E, preferably made round, one side of the hole being arranged to come fiush with one side ofthe inner surface of thcbo'dy A.

F is a cover made to iit the hole E and being flanged so as to form a dust-proofj oint. Vhen it is desired to sift ashes the cover F is re moved and the ashes dumped in through the hole E. The cover may then be replaced, and the sieve, which is supposed' to be located on top of an open barrel or its equivalent, may be shaken so as to cause the ashes contained within it to vibrate. The ne ashes are in this way sifted through the mesh of the bottom, while the cinders remain in the sifter. When all the` ashes have thus been shaken into the barrel, the sifter may be lifted off, the cover F removed, and by dumping the sifter so that the edge of the hole next to the inside of the body shall be at the bottom the ashes will fall freely out of the sifter.

The handles G afford a good hold for operating the sifter, and I may also mention that, although I do not confine myself to using the sifter iu connection with the barrel, the adoption of a barrel will be found the cheapest form of ash-receptacle, and is therefore preferable to any other form of ashbox.

I attach importance to the cover C being fianged, as shown, and also to its being rigidly secured to the rim of the sieve, so as to move with it wh en reciprocated. In case there were no flange the sieve would sustain the entire shock at each movement of the cover, and would soon be loosened from the same, but by my construction the iiange sustains half the jar, thus making a very substantial and durable article, and the ange also serves to decct the escaping dust, Snc., and prevent the same from rising in the faceof the operator while the ashes are being sifted.

Vhat I claim as my invention isl. The combination, with the receptacle D, of a cover, C, resting on and constructed to be reciprocated ,horizontally over said receptacle, and a-sieve, A, having its rim A made fast to and supported directly by the cover, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with. the receptacle D, of a cover, O, resting on and constructed to be reciprocated horizontally over said receptacle, and having a flange, a, and the sieve A, having its rim A made fast to and directly supported by the cover, substantially as described.

Toronto, September 26, 1883.

H. W. BOOTH.

In presence of GHAs. G. BALDWIN, DONALD C. RIDOUT. 

